AN APPEAL TO AMERICA.
The following is, taken from a message to America, given by King Albert of Belgium to' Mr. Granville Fortescue, in whose book ("At the Front with Three Armies ") it now appears :—: — "I hope that the American people will remember that Belgium has been scrupulously exact in carrying out its obligations as a neutral country. It has never been our policy to interfere in international politics. Like the United States, we hav ( o been concerned only with our own problems. Belgium is fighting to defend her neutrality, and she will fight as long as that neutrality is invaded. ' ' No nation has more hospitably entertained foreigners than Belgium. Year after year we have Teceived them,' always treating them as the best of friends. Our greatest boast in Belgium is our liberty, and this liberty extend* to all who live within our borders. The Germans who have lived with us in Antwerp, Brussels, Ostend, have enjoyed this liberty to the fullest. ... "I hope that the American nation as a neutral will not forget how the neutrality of Belgium has been violated. When the war is ended this fact sfiould bear heavily on the terms of peace."
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 14
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197AN APPEAL TO AMERICA. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 14
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